Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
age age-and-aging began deadliest esteem feelings grow heaviest life longer moment
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.
detest far haste longest love men
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
joy longer memory sorrow
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
long library lamps
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
joy longer memory pain
The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.
long doubt quiet
I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.
long evil strange
I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.
art men long-ago
Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
rocks long-ago clouds
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
nature passion long
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
doubt heard rome stood time
I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome
alone burning rebel spirit weak
The spirit burning but unbent, / May writhe, rebel - the weak alone repent!
daily lady leave literary smug wits
The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen, I leave them to their daily ""tea is ready,"" Smug coterie and literary lady
adventure agreeable lively
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.